Cultivator.



`A..AA. KELLOGG.

CULTIVATOR.

l APPLICATION FILED APR.11,1910.

Patented Apr. 11, 191i.

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Og/ nuclll'oz A. AQKELLOGG.

CULTIVATOR.

APPLIUATIGN FILED M1111, 1910.

Patented Apr. 11, 1911.

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CULTIVATQR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patenten apr. it, reti.

Application led April 11, 1910. Serial No. 554,894.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. KELLocG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clinton, in the county of Henry and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Cultivator, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cultivators and consists in certain novel features which will be hereinafter first fully described and then more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

lVith the wheeled cultivators now in use, so far as l am aware, the soil is thrown continually in the same direction. When plowing on level ground, the shovels are arranged to throw the soil up against the lants andlwhen working dn the side ot' a hi l, theshovels on the upper side will throw the soil against the plant with such force that it either covers the plant or breaks it down.

groumland, while dry enough to work, the low ground will be- One object ot' my invention, therefore, is to provide a cultivator in which the shovels may be adjusted to overcome this diiculty without stopping the travel of the machine so that the shovels on the upper side will throw the' dirt away from the plants and thereby avoid the injury to the same which heretofore occurred.

It also frequently happens that in the sameI field there will be high and low the high ground will be wet. If the shovels are set to throw the soil to the' lant on the dry ground and cannota be rea ily shifted from that position when the cultivator reaches the wet ground, the

Ysoil will roll into large lumps, and if thesej lumps are thrown against the plants, will cover them up or break themdown,

One object of my invent' n, therefore, is.

to provide a cultivator whic may be readily adjusted toV work in either dry or wet ground without loss of time and without requiring the substitutionbf any parts for those which maybe in use, and without re quiring the'driver to dismou'nt.

A further object of my invent-ion is to provide means by which the several shovels at either side of the cultivator ma be sili1u1 taneouslyl adjusted .without a ecting shovels at theother side of the cultlvator,

tion so as to be prevented from accidentally moving therefrom.

A still further object of the invention is wardly-extending bars be locked in their adjusted ps1,

to provide a construction by which the vertical movement of the shovels in their supports will be positively prevented, and all these objects and such other incidental objects as will hereinafter appear Aare attained in the mechanism illustrated in the;l accom panying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a .wheeled cu-ltivator showing my improvements applied thereto. .F ig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of -a gang of shovels removed from the cultivator. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same showing the movement of the shovels by full and dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on the linc M of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail transverse section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3. Fig.- 6 is a detail perspective view showing a slight modification.

The wheeled cultivator maybe of any well known construction and is shown as provided with hangers v1 depending from cross bars 2, the rear cross bar 2' serving also as the-arch of an axle on which are mounted the carrying wheels 3. The hangers are arranged at both sides of the tongue 4 and a drivers seat 5 is secured on rear- 6 forming a partof the cultivator frame. 4

The cultivator beams 7 aresupported at their front ends by the hangers 1 and may be. raised or lowered by means of levers 8V mounted upon the frame and connected with` the same through links 9 in the ordinary manner, and as will be readily understood.

ln carrying out my invention, the beams are constructed'o parallel members-'or sec- 1 tions 10 consisting of channel irons spaced apart and maintained in their proper. relative positions by spacing blocks 11 which also form the bearings for the stems or Shanks 12 to which the cultivator shovels 13 i are secured. The blocks 11 are substantially I-shaped in cross section, being provided with' flarges 14 at their upper 'and lower ends whic project over andunder the upper and lowel` sides or edges of the channel iron members 10, and are vrigidly aecured to the said members by bolts 1 5 inserteda--through'the .blocks and both members. as will 'be readily understood. The stems or Shanks 12 which carry the-'culti' vator shovels a e journaled in the central bores ofV the biypcks 11 and are provided below the said blocks with annular shoulders ldbearing agaihst the under Isides gr lower lie stems are bent laterally to provide crank ment of the saine.

arms i7 which ride upon the upper ends ofthe blocks and thereby 'prevent downward movement or dropping of ythe stems.

These crank arms 17 play between pins .18 rising from thecultivator beam at opposite sides of the crank arms to limit the move- The free ends of the crank arms 17 are connected by a bar or 'strap 19 in which they are pivotally engaged, and near the ends ,-f the said bar or strap are slots QQ in whihthe ends-of links or connecting rods :2l play. These links or connecting rods 2l extend inward from the ends of the connecting bar 19 and are pivotally attached to the side of the operating lever 2.2 which is pivotedl to one of the .members l0 of the beam and is equipped with the usual latch 23'adapted to engage a quadrant Q4 secured on the beam concentric ,with the pivot of the lever.

'hen the lever Q2 is in its central or upright position, the ends of the links 2l will lie atthe inner ends of the transverse slots 20 in the connecting bar 19 and the crank arms 17 will extend from the cultivator beam at right angles thereto. If the lever be moved either forward or backward, the links 2l will transmit the movement of the lever to the connecting bar 19 `and through the said bar the crank arms 17 will be swung forward or backward so that the stems l2 will be rotated in their bearings and the eultivator shovels consequently adjusted to a different angle to throw the soil in another direction, as may be necessary under the conditions controlling the operation of the machine. The ,eultivator shovels, it will be seen at once, will thus be simultaneously adjusted so as to assume a uniform inclination with respect to the cultivator beam and, consequently, will throw the soil in the desired direction with certainty. As the crank arms swing about their respective shanks, the connecting bar 19 will, of course, be moved closer to or farther from the plane of the operating lever, as will be readily understood on reference to the dotted lines in Fig. 3.' 1Were the outer ends of the links 2l iiriixed connection with. the bar 1t), the

movement of the parts would tend to bend and break the said links, and, in order to )ermit the said links to have free play upon theI coni'iccting bar 1Q so as -to accommodate this difference iii relation between the connecting bai' and the operating lever, the ends of the links are mounted in the slots 20 through which they may ride the con- 'nec-ting bar moves closer to the plane of the link. Bending of the links will consequently be positively prevented and` the binding of the saine on the connecting bar so as to inter fere with theeasyadjustment of the parts is avoided.

In Fig. 6, I have shown a modified application of the invention, in which the-beam is composed of upper and lower members 25 and 2G consisting of channel irons having their channels disposed on their inner faces, and spacing blocks 27 are secured between t-he said members to maintain them in their proper relative positions. lined openings are formed in the members and 26A between the spacing lblocks and the' Shanks V2S of the cultivators are journaled in these.

openings, as indicated at 29, the portions of the shanks between the members beingl bentla'terally to furnish .U-shaped crank 'arms 30, the bights 3l of which are engaged by the ccnnecting'bar 32 which is actuated fromvthe operating, lever through links 33, -I

in the same manner as the similar parts are operated in the construction illustrated in. the other figures It will be readily seen that my device is simple and strong in construction and will not be expensive-to manufacture. The operating levers will extend up to a point where they may be easily manipulated from .the drivers seat and either gang of shovels may be adjusted without atiectingthe operation of the other gang, so that the soil turned up and thrown to one side by either gang may be so disposed as to produce the desired growth of the plants without any of the disadvantages or causing any of the' damage4 to the plants which was heretofore found unavoidable. v

The advantages lof the construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while. I have described -the principle of operation of the invention, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and that such changes may be made when desired as aie within the scope ofthe claims appended hereto.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a, beam comprising spaced members, blocks secured between the said members and provided at their upper and lower ends with lateral flanges engaging the upper and lower sides 'of thebeain, shovel-carrying stems Iiournaled in the said blocks and provided vwith annular shoulders engaging the lower ends of the blocks and with crank arms riding over the upper ends of the blocks, and means acting on the said crank arms to rotate thel said stems.

2. The combination with a cultivator beam, ot.shovel-carryingr stems rotatably mounted therein, means for simultaneously iso rotating the said stems, and stops on the upper side ofthe beam to limit the movement of the stems.

3. Ihe combination with a cultivator beam, of shovel-carrying stems rotatably mounted in the beam `-and provided With crank arms at their /upper'ends projecting over the beam, means mounted on the beam and acting on the said crank arms to rotate the said stems, and pins' projecting upward from the beam at opposite sides of theI crank 4arms to limit the movement of the same.

'4. The combination with a cultivator beam, of shovel-carrying stems rotatably mounted in the beam and provided with lateral crank arms, a connecting bar pivotally attached to all of the said crank arms and provided near its ends with slots, an operating lever mounted on the beam, and links pivoted at their inner ends to the said operating lever and having their outer ends playing in the said slots in the connecting bar.

5. In a cultivator, a gang of cultivator shovels each having a stem bent to form an 'integral crank extension, a beam formed of joined spaced channel members, said beam having journal bearings for the shovel stems, and an adjusting mechanism common to all the shovel stems of the gang for moving all the shovels simultaneously each about the longitudinal axis of its individual stem.

(3. In a cultivator, a beam formed o-f channel irons joined together in parallel relation with interposed spacing blocks coacting-with th'e Hanges ofthe channel' ironsto 

